Fieldsports, Photography and Frontiers

Had an interesting time this weekend trying out the new stand or mast for the grouse season. The theory is to get above the butts and take some unique shots looking down on the butts and the action. My concern is that it will be difficult to see the grouse on the background of the moor but the view from …

This is a link to a Norwegian television programme about the Duke of Roxburghe and his family fishing the Alta. A good programme and well made and he and the family do an excellent job. Worth watching. I enjoyed how the youngest son fishes just like his Dad towards the end of the film. http://tv.nrk.no/serie/ut-i-naturen/DNPR65008510/27-05-2012.

We did not have our usual major gathering of incoming and outgoing guests on Wednesday evening because those with a few hours left wanted to get out and fish one more time so they had an early dinner and went fishing and we had dinner with the new arrivals. The weather had not changed but the river had ceased to …

As I drove north so the clouds cleared and finally the sun came out. There it has stayed. I have not seen a cloud since about half way up the motorway on the weekend! We have an excellent party of seven rods for the first part of the week, some new and some repeaters from last year. They have …

Tarquin Millington-Drake has been the Managing Director of well-known sporting travel company, Frontiers Travel, in the UK since 1993. Consequently he has been lucky to travel extensively with rod, gun and camera at home and abroad.

In this blog he shares his travels and experiences along the way with pen, camera and video. Some will be humorous and light-hearted, some news and views and finally some simply an appreciation for where he is and what he is doing.